Consultant Midwife, Band 8c

Job summary

We are seeking an expert midwife to take a lead role in driving strategic initiatives and delivering safe, personalised maternity care across all clinical settings in Gloucestershire.

This highly autonomous role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of maternity services, ensuring care is centred on women, birthing people and their families, and grounded in choice, compassion and evidence-based practice.

As Consultant Midwife, you will provide professional leadership and role modelling in best practice, supporting midwives to reach their full potential as autonomous practitioners. You will play a key part in developing and implementing the vision and strategy for maternity services, promoting professional standards, advancing scope of practice, and fostering clinically curious, research-informed midwives.

This is a rare opportunity to influence maternity care at a strategic level, working alongside multidisciplinary teams to embed innovation, quality improvement and patient-focused care. You will inspire and lead teams through change, ensuring women and families remain at the heart of every decision, while championing professional development and excellence in midwifery practice. If you are a forward-thinking, compassionate leader with a proven track record in midwifery leadership and a passion for shaping exceptional maternity services, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an expert Consultant Midwife to provide clinical leadership, professional guidance, and strategic oversight across maternity services in Gloucestershire. The role includes working directly in practice to support women, birthing people and their families, providing expert midwifery care, and acting as a role model to midwives. You will lead the development and implementation of evidence-based models of care, promote continuity of carer and midwifery-led services, and ensure safe, high-quality practice across all settings.

You will play a key role in professional leadership, supporting workforce development, education, training, research, and service improvement. This includes mentoring midwives, fostering reflective practice, overseeing clinical governance, and ensuring compliance with national guidance and quality standards. You will contribute to service redesign, strategic planning, and innovation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, Higher Education Institutions, and partner organisations to improve outcomes for mothers, babies, and families.

About us

Gloucestershire Hospitals provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital, as well as maternity services at Stroud Maternity Hospital.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, representing over 95 nationalities, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire. Bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. The Trust continues to work closely with partners and local communities to improve health and wellbeing to ensure access to services.

We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.Our maternity services provide comprehensive, family-centred care for women and families across the county supporting around 6,000 births a year.

The service includes consultant-led maternity units Gloucestershire Royal Hospital alongside Stroud Maternity Unit, which offers midwife-led care and postnatal support. In addition, dedicated community midwifery teams deliver antenatal, postnatal and home birth services across a wide geographical area, ensuring continuity of care and choice for women.